Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1887-02-22

ground and whipped It twice around the
upright body OF the girl by horrible
fatality binding her hands close to her
breast and her whole body to the saddle
So far as guidance was concerned the
buckskin mare was practically without q
rider.
The girl tried TO rise so as TO loosen the
embrace of the cord. but she was bound
down. She put all her strength into her
arms and strove TO tear her hands away
For the first time in her life she appre
ciated the tragedy i'll the lives 81 the help
less.
A coyote got mp from a clump Of wild
roses, and instead Of making Of across the
prairies struck up course parellel with
that of the mare
Then the girl bent over, and with her
little teeth-they We're like grains of rice
began TO gnaw the dried and weather
toughened rawhide. Her face was white
now; her heart choked her; her helpless
ness made her afraid.
Another coyote slipped out Of the mist
on the other side of the wildly galloping
mare, and apparently without effort kept
mp with her There was a sudden scam
pering in the prairie dog village ahead,
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popped head foremost into their holes.
Then the mares head suddenly went
down. There came muffied snap, like
the breaking Of well seasoned hickory
wand. The mares front teeth ground
into the earth, and turning upon them as
upon pivot her body fel, forward and
sidewise. Her right fore leg had gone to
10 the knee in marmot's hole and been
broken like grass.
The saddle. with its burden. was under
her, it was crushed, twisted and stained,
and the stans-scarlet in the moonlight
were gradually growing larger.
Further than the regularly recurrent
rise and fall Of the mares yellow sides
there was no motion iii the recumbent
heap. One or two adventurous prairie
dogs put out their heads and snuffed the
the air for moment ready at the slightest
motion to tumble back into their city of
refuge; but upon finding that no move
ment came from the object of their fear,
they grew bolder, and soon the whole vii
lage was scampering about as before
They had no fear Of the coyotes, which
seemed TO be mastering from every point
of the compass Was II q sixth sense
which told the wolves that there was
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the distant scent from the mares wounded
'eg and the slowly growing stains about
the saddle' As they drew near to the
quarry their long drawn howls We're
changed to shrieks; their cries became
louder. like those of hounds on trail, and
when the reeking trail ended at the pros
trate bodies, they shortened into barks
and savage Snarlings.
At first the brutes skulked among the
bushes and grass, but as the hours grew
older they gradually closed in upon the
victims until one, more adventurous than
the rest, made two sudden leaps forward,
and with his yellow teeth tore the mares
flank.
She lifted her head. 1t was then that
O'Rourke heard the scream, which he was
ready TO lay his hat was the scream Of a
horse.
The mare never screamed again.
Before morning the pra rairie dog village
was only numbered with few shreds and
patches of leather buckle or two and a
steel spur. The bones all had been
dragged away TO be gnawed in the pri-
vacy of the ravines.-Henry Newport in
Detroit Free Press.